Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-10-27
A dog owned near Boston cllews gum.

General James a. Wilson lives In Boston.
General I. J. Wood lives at Dayton, Ohio.
A crow is lIvingin Ohio aged about thirty.
five years.
The lake of Merjelan, in Switzerland, has
disappeared.
The fashionable bodice Just now Is long,
rather narrow and fitting the figure closely.
1t hasn't yet been definitely settled at what
age an unmarried female becomes q chestnut
Annie Mercer, OF Missauke county, Mich, IL
over six feet tall, though only twelve years
old.
A Chinese fishing junk at Vallejo, Cal, has
mile and quarter OF line, carrying 6,36C
hooks.
If we are to have wings In the hereafter we
DON'T exactly see how we are to get our
clothes on.
back wa recently found In Horse Creek,
Madison county, Illinois.
A man In Maine has hen which Is sure
death on mouse. lie claims that she often
catches several day.
The largest university In the world is Ok.
ford, In England. II consists of twenty-one
colleges and five halls.
The tendency to make the bodice of one
stuff while the skirt and draperies are OF
another grows In favor
A unique pair OF pepper-and-sat bottles
recently introduced represent sheaves of wheat
In oxidized silver.
A recent idea In dinner sets Is to have all
the service of etched oxidzed silver and each
piece of different pattern.
lfyou happen to see telegraph wire lying
on the ground, you will find II q very safe
thing to let alone.
The peal of the breakfast bell doesn't always
bring man down, but the peel of banana
Will do 1t every time.
Joshua stopped the sun, but 1t would have
puzzled him to stopa bob-taied street-car
after 1t had passed him rod.
Jay Gould is quietly buying large tracts of
western land. All he wants Is the land that
lines hisn.
leading tailor makes all his trousers with
out pockets. His customers have no use tor
them after paying for the Clothes.
If some Of the keys of a piano were utallzed
to lock 1t up, this world would be little
brighter. "
"Where are the biggest sponges in the
world found?' asks a correspondent. They
are found occupying thrones and free-lunch
tables
"Let us have tax on luxuries," cried pub
lie speaker, and when he found three carpet
lacks in his huckleberry pie that noon he was
satisfied.
California was thlrty-seyen years old last
Friday. She has sowed more wild oats and
rad bigger time generally than any other
state Of her age.
In this enlightened age, true greatness con-
sists In smoking three dozen twenty-five cent
Cigars day. and having o signature that
lob0dy can read.
A human skeleton which was placed in the
hallway Of the medical college at Los Angeles
or the purpose. as explained, OF soaring bur-
glars, has been stolen.
Near Coal Canyon, Cal, IL q mammoth flg
rec measuring l02 inches In circumference
our feet from the ground. IL has four i'm
nense branches, each Of which exceeds fifty
inches In circumference.
An Egyptian 100 years old has been dscov-
cred at Minieth. He possesses all his faculties
md walks three hours per day. A native pa
Der says that he recently married woman
90 years his junior.
religious contemporary asks, "How shall
We get young men to church," Well, II the
lOrsc cars are not running we think a pony
)hgtOn or dog cart with two horses driven
andem could do 1t.
Miss Susanna Bancroft, the brunette grand
laughter of the historian, has turned her back
lpOn her Countrymen and has determined to
marry Frenchman. NJ. Labac Is the name
If the fortunate youth.
'Sir, " he said to the editor as he laid a
raCt upon the desk. ~ am seeking lost souls
md" Our Lost and Found column is
What you want. Five lines or less twenty
ents for each and every insertion"
As inducements to ''any respectable couple
o be married at the farmers fair at Lititz,
'enn., the following gifts were offered A
Tnge and regular cooking outfit, S25 In
money. bureau. expenses at the hotel, and
icket to Philadelphia.
The new Episcopal church of st. Thomas at
Namaroneck, on New York sound, flies a
White flag from its 'spire tower" Its legend
sthc official seal of the parish, with dates In
lark blue, and it is the only instance OF
,hurch flag known in this country.
A commission of the French assembly has
Ormally approved. by a large majority, reso-
utiOn in favor of disestablishment. The State
grant now paid to the church amounts to
| $4,000, 600, exclusive of S2.000,00O provided
| or departments and municipal councils.
A ten-inch lizard was found in the mail
| rom England at the New York postoflice. II
vas directed to a place In Indiana. The little
BEAST had crossed the ocean in tightly closed
| cigar box, but became as lively us could be
when air was given him.
An orange grower near Lake Eustis Flori
| Ia, found on one Of his trees q fruit that
seemed to be about two-thrds orange and
| one-third Japan persimmon. The latter re.
| sembles full-grown and ripe red pepper. He
| iug down to the roots of the orange tree and
there found the living root of Japan per-
smmOn tree twined among the orange tire
| roots.
| After a brother had made fervent prayer
| At q class meeting in Methodist Episcopal
church the other evening his wife put new
| life into the meeting by rising and saving
"Brethren and sisters, that man-my husband
is fraud; he has no more religion than ;
cannibal; he hasn't spoken to me for the las,
! two years" Then her voice was drowned b!
the leader as he began prayer
Fifty-nine ladies' OF the ballet have, 1t Il
| said. forwarded to the bishop of London CDR
Temple) an indignant remonstrance agains
| his statement-in letter which he lately ad
Church and Stage Gould"-that when the,
are performing they display an improper lax
ity of costume. This they call "monstrou
and shameful charge" and declare 1t to b.
absolutely false"
Good night mamma" said little Frank, a
he put his little brown head on the pillow
Mamma stood ut the door, just ready to q,
down stairs. Good night, mamma. VIII tn,
| little small voice | hear in the night hur
me?" mo. my darling" ats Gods voice
| isn't II mamma?' yes my darling" 18th,
minister said it was didn't he mammal" aye
love" WAS 1t Gods voice that said scat
scat under the window last nlght!"
Catarrh Cured.
clergyman, after years of suffering from
thnt dicaaGn Tata oil